Contents, The Delphi Magazine Issue 108, August 2004

• News
  Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix.
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• Delphi For .NET Class Helpers Inside Out
  Marcel van Brakel describes in detail a new language feature called class helpers... but then advises us not to use them. So why bother describing them at all? First, because understanding class helpers will help you understand why you should resist temptation and avoid using them, and second, because there are a few situations in which class helpers are very handy.
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• Using Events In Interbase
  Steven Soroka shows how using InterBase (or Firebird) events to notify your applications that something of interest has taken place helps lighten the load in your database applications by drastically reducing the number of unnecessary SQL statements.
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• .NET Security: Signing Assemblies
  Bob Swart explains why you may want to sign your Delphi-developed .NET assemblies and how to go about it, including delay signing and other handy hints.
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• EnterpriseServices In .NET
  Pedro Agulló Soliveres provides an essential philosophical background for a new series on enterprise-level application development, covering the .NET framework support in the namespace System.EnterpriseServices, containing; classes that will allow us to exploit services that will make such development easier with Delphi. Oh, and just exactly what is an enterprise-level application? Read on to find out!
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• Understanding And Using Group Policy
  Jani Järvinen knows that as your applications grow more complex, you need to allow users to set options that configure how your application behaves. Letting the end-user customise these settings is fine, but in an enterprise environment administrators often want to globally enforce certain settings. Building your own management framework is wasted time: Windows already has what we need in Group Policy. Jani tells us all we need to know.
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• Under Construction: Delphi Language Enhancements
  Bob Swart outlines the additions to our beloved language that arrived with Delphi 8, and discusses which of these might make the transfer from .NET to Win32 in a future Delphi version.
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• Review: TurboDemo 5
  Craig Murphy reviews this tool designed to make the creation of application demos as easy and slick as it possibly can be. One for your toolkit? See what Craig concludes.
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• Review: A Delphi Web Portal
  John Braga has been experimenting with a web portal system for ASP.NET written using Delphi 8 for .NET.
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• Book Review: Delphi For .NET Developer’s Guide by Xavier Pacheco
  

• Bob Swart checks out the only Delphi 8 for .NET book currently in existence.
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